Esi Edugyan is the only Canadian among the 10 finalists for the International Dublin Literary Award, an annual €100,000 ($155,458 Cdn) prize that goes to the best work of fiction written in English from anywhere in the world. Edugyan is a nominee for Washington Black, an epic novel that looks at race and identity from a historical fiction perspective. The book tells the story of 11-year-old Washington "Wash" Black, a slave on a Barbados sugar plantation in the 19th century. Washington Black won the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was on the Booker Prize shortlist and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize shortlist. The Silence of the Girls was a 2018 finalist for the U.K.'s Costa Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Source: CBC News September 09, 2020 16:03 UTC